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We don’t have to repeat mistakes of the past

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Growing up in Pittsburgh, I didn’t know much about West Virginia until I became a student at West Virginia University in the 1970s. The narrative I heard at WVU was, West Virginia is a poor state. We have a lot of coal. It is owned by out of state companies. We get coal jobs but out of state people make the money. West Virginia is left with holes in the ground, acid mine drainage and barren ground from strip mining. The 1970s were the beginning of the environmental movement, mine reclamation regulations have gotten stricter since the 1970s. Ways are being found to utilize the flat ...

Inside the gonzo brilliancy of Trump’s Gaza diplomacy

Columns

The “ceasefire now” crowd finally got its ceasefire, although not the way it hoped. Israel and Hamas have agreed to stop the fighting in Gaza, while the terror group will release all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. There’s always a chance the agreement falls apart. Still, it isn’t creating jubilation from all the people who have been braying for Israel to end the war. There are two reasons — one is that the deal is favorable for Israel, and the other is that the deal’s architect is a president of the United States whom the ...

Columbus Day has offered a chance to celebrate our civilization

Columns

Battles over Columbus Day aren’t really about Christopher Columbus at all — they’re about whether America should exist. “Columbus’s journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas — paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776,” President Donald Trump says in his Columbus Day proclamation. Yet that’s why the holiday has so many enemies. Unlike progressive movements of decades past, today’s ideological left doesn’t particularly ...

Stop the U.N.’s global climate tax on American ships

Columns

Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law. This resolution before the International Maritime Organization will impose a carbon tax on cargo and cruise ships that carry $20 trillion of merchandise over international waters. Roughly 80% of the bulkage of world trade is transported by ship. The resolution is intended to advance the very “net zero” carbon emissions standard ...

Keeping Ohioans safe

Editorials

A few years back, there was a trend among legislators to change laws regarding public records in a way they claimed was meant to better protect victims, especially children and particularly vulnerable older victims. The interpretation of those laws, however, has turned out to protect not the victims, but those who may have committed crimes (or at the very least been negligent) against those victims. Disability Rights Ohio is the federally designated Protection and Advocacy System in the state, and has been granted the authority to investigate cases in which there is suspected ...

When it comes to Halloween candy, she’s on the supply side

Columns

I’m told that ours is a market economy — driven by supply and demand, or end-stage capitalism at its finest. But I find that around this time of year, as plastic skeletons hang from suburban rooftops and air-stuffed Jack-O-Lanterns droop in the October wind, things get a bit more banana republic. Or, more of a Banana Laffy Taffy Republic, I guess you could say. For I, the parent, am the reluctant chair of the Federal Candy Reserve, riding out market fluctuations in candy costs and performing quantitative easing to pump treats into the neighborhood market, only to be left with a ...